Cottage 130m South-West of King's Post is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Cottage 130m South-West of King's Post

WRENN ID
tangled-shingle-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 April 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Cottage 130m South-West of King's Post, Cranborne, BH21 5RX
OS grid reference
SU 058 149
Coordinates
50.93356, -1.91785
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This cottage, located 130 meters southwest of King's Post, dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is constructed of brick and rendered cob with a thatched roof that has a half-hipped design on the right side. There is a brick stack at the left end. The building is one and a half storeys high and features a single window range with 2-light casements that have horizontal glazing bars. The ground floor right window is set within an earlier heavy timber surround. The central entrance is an original plank door framed in heavy timber.

Inside, notable features include a stop-chamfered ceiling beam and a chamfered timber fireplace bressummer with run-out stops.

Local climate

Cottage 130m South-West of King's Post receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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